A suicide case involving a family in Dagana has opened up fresh discussions among the public on just how conversion activities of Christians in the villages - among the illiterate and the poor - is going awry. The finger is pointed, for now, on a national housing development corporation (NHDC) engineer Tendup Lepcha, 40 – a Christian pastor,>>>

SHUSHUFINDI, Ecuador — Mention to Anita Ruíz the name of the giant oil company Chevron, and she trembles with rage. At her wooden hut here in the Amazon forest, where oil-project flares illuminate the night sky, she points to a portrait of her youngest son, who died seven years ago of leukemia at age 16.

MOSCOW -- A flat in a 12-story building in Tekstilschiki, an industrial Moscow suburb, is an unlikely place for an election headquarters -- and an even unlikelier one for the hub of a shaman election.

But this is where Shonchalai Khovenmei, whose grandmother was a shaman in Khakasia, a region in eastern Siberia, has joined forces with Moscow shaman Olard Dikson to organize the election for the post of Russia’s chief shaman.

Bali's spirit world is alive and well, traveling into the future alongside instant communications, Mars probes and moon tourism. In modern Bali no major event is left to the risk of a wash out in the wet season; events here are still under the protective umbrella of the rain men of Bali, the pawang hujan.>>>>